Part 3. Express in Context
You’ve arrived at the final act of our story: Express in Context.
You spent part 1 of this book learning what Express is and its relationship to Node.js. In part 2 you learned all of Express’s ins and outs—routing, views, middleware, and more.
Now you’ll build on that foundational knowledge. Express is rarely the only tool that you’ll use to build an Express application, and you’ll learn how to integrate it with other tools. Your applications will become real.
Chapter 8 will look at database integration. Most interesting web applications have some kind of persistent data store; maybe they store users or photos or blog posts (or all of those). You’ll learn how to integrate the popular MongoDB database with an Express ...
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